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Genealogy research: using probate records to uncover Tidwell heirlooms
A family heirloom rarely arrives with a complete explanation. A quilt may carry a stitched initial, a pocket watch may have passed through several households,…
The Dust on the Attic Trunk That Held McCarthy Letters
Dust is often treated as evidence of neglect, yet it can also be a record of time. It settles on the lid of a trunk, gathers in the folds of envelopes, and…
Home Exchange in Italy: A Farmhouse in the Tuscan Hills
A home exchange can turn an Italian holiday into a temporary life rather than a sequence of hotel stays. In the Tuscan hills, a stone farmhouse may offer…
Remembering Martha Jane Tidwell, 1820–1901
Martha Jane Tidwell lived across a century of immense change. Born in 1820 and recorded as dying in 1901, she belonged to a generation that knew a world of…
South Family Service in the American Civil War 1861 to 1865
The American Civil War reshaped an entire generation of households across the southern states, and the South family was no exception. Between the first shots…
Allen's Essay: Tracing the Brighton Family's Wagon Route to Missouri
Allen's essay opens in a study lined with filing cabinets and a framed tintype. From that quiet starting point, his writing pulls the reader westward, through…
The Quilt Stitched by Margaret Telford for Her Daughter’s Wedding
A quilt can preserve a family story in a form that is both intimate and remarkably durable. In Loni’s prose, the quilt stitched by Margaret Telford for her…
The Tidwell family's 1850 land grant deed: a transcription and analysis
In the autumn of 1850 a parcel of land along a quiet Tennessee watercourse passed from the hands of the state into those of a farmer named Ephraim Tidwell, who…
Martha Brighton Tidwell: a pioneer life remembered
Martha Brighton was born in the autumn of 1839 in a rural corner of the American South, a time when wagon tracks still outnumbered paved roads and most…
Home Exchange in Amsterdam: Living in a Dutch Canal House
For years we had been talking about spending more than a long weekend in the Netherlands. Allen had family research to chase up in the western Holland…